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It had grown well and was too tall to fit in the car, so I cut the top section off and sealed it with some gum my son was chewing. It was left in the care of my mother-in-law until we returned two years later. I bought this tree as small nursery stock during a visit to family in Melbourne for Christmas 1984.

The current one is Australian made from Mirkwood. It has been potted in a variety of pots since I got it. I was attracted to the wrinkled (вЂњold manвЂќ) trunk of the tree initially, but it had also flowered beautifully shortly after I got it.

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As the tree was still in its original plastic nursery pot, full to the brim with roots, there was a lot of work to be done on the tree to start creating anything resembling a bonsai. I acquired the tree from a fellow bonsai enthusiast in a rather bushy and very pot bound state in 1999. The bonsai displayed here is believed to have been started from seed in 1982. Soon after purchasing, this tree was cut back hard and has since been developed by a combination of wiring and clip and grow.Д«anksia serrata grows as a shrub to small tree with corky bark. The miniature tree, growing on the cliff-edge, hugs the ground. It is presented here in a special pot that evokes a cliff-edge habitat in twilight, where the sandstone cliffs still glow ruddy while the depths below them are swathed in the blue-black of evening.

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The plant here is a young bonsai вЂ“ determining how to prune it to achieve branch development is still a challenge. It to hail from the northeast coast of Tasmania, and is somewhat drought tolerant. This cultivar came on the market in the early вЂnaughtsвЂ™. Specimens I have grown on in the garden as bonsai material developed a mixture of upward and downward growing branches, so perhaps the garden inspiration was a natural shape after all. I have found this particular tree, at least as a young plant, does not like having its branches wired strongly down unless the tip is allowed to grow up strongly. I often wondered if children playing had helped shape that tree. I was struck by its heavy lowest branch sweeping down to the ground then growing upwards at the tip. This tree is modelled on a Banksia growing in a garden near the cliff tops at Avalon, NSW. The tree has been recently root pruned and repotted and the bonsai artist is still looking for a more suitable pot. At the 2005 Royal it was judged 1st in both Native and Champion Native in Show. In 2004 the banksia came second at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney. The pot could not be put on the ground because the tree was вЂcascadingвЂ™ and customers were looking for upright garden plants. This banksia was purchased for $4 from a throw out bin at a nursery. It is a rewarding native to work with as the leaves are very attractive and nicely in proportion with the plant. The myrtle has been in training for 2 years and has developed very well in that time. When it was transferred from the original pot to a training pot one extended root was cut off and the cut off end, with roots, was planted to make a smaller bonsai. This tree was purchased as a collected bonsai stock plant. If you can keep the borers away from acacias, regularly repot on an annual basis, keep in a full sun position and provide them with regular watering, they can be successful long lived bonsai. It has a very attractive yellow flower spike of 5cm in Spring. The pot is a very old Japanese freeform pot which I feel, with it's irregular shape, compliments the styling of this plant really well. I have had numerous problems with borers, which have unfortunately killed off some of the branches. I have played around with various styling options but feel the literati style utilises the best feature of the tree which is the visually-pleasing, twisting trunk. It was rather neglected but had an interesting base and trunk which was the catalyst for the purchase. The plant was purchased from a general nursery about 20 years ago.

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